corybantic
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Grocer's apostrophes are scribbled out, misspellings fixed, and good lord the corybantic orgy of less/fewer corrections.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity."
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
In the Albert Hall, where he made his début amid scenes of corybantic enthusiasm last week, the diminutive virtuoso was hardly visible to the naked eye.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various
Small boys, who, attracted by his corybantic entrance, had come to the doors of their cubicles to see what the matter was, regarded him furtively with looks of mingled fear and amusement.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
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